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Ear Infections
Oryon - 10/12/2007 11:14 AM
I am writing this in the hopes that my experience may enlighten others and that they may learn from my mistakes. It may be considered educational but know the facts are not entirely verified. I was recently diagnosed as having Otitis media or otherwise known as an inner ear infection. This is an uncommon ailment in adults in general but diving increases the relative risks of developing this condition. That being said, even though how I came to have an infection is not known, I believe it is due ...